The Remains of the Day (Paperback, Open Market Edition - FF Classice (Export))

Booker Prize Winner 1989. An elderly butler's obsession with the dignity of his profession is shaken on a five day West Country motoring trip in the 1950s the climax of which is a meeting with his former housekeeper Miss Kenton. During the course of the narrative, he recalls in compelling and vivid detail his service in the 1930s, and the painful realization that the man he served and respected was a Nazi sympathizer. The unrealised love between Stevens and Miss Kenton underscores the novels atmosphere of chastening loss. Ishiguro's work captures this period of British history while painting a complex picture of a proud, ageing man. (Kirkus UK)

'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	FF Classics
Release date:	April 1999
Authors:	Kazuo Ishiguro
Dimensions:	178 x 110 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	258
Edition:	Open Market Edition - FF Classice (Export)
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-20073-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-571-20073-7
Barcode:	9780571200733

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